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enlarged that not one or two leagues, but maybe ten or twelve leagues
will be organized. Doubtless there will be Class AA, Class A, B and C
leagues. Every city in America of any size will belong to a league and
they will have their professional teams

And last but not least, World War Two will supply the talent and the
material for professional basketball, Every large metropolitan city
has an auditorium that can seat from eight to twenty-five thousand
people. The American soldier and sailor in every army camp and station
is playing basketball. I% is a game easy to play and develops few
casualties. Therefore, we can expect professional basketball on a larger
scale than anyone can quite imagine at the present time.

So the three wars, the Civil War, World War One and World War Two
are the direct causes of the Ghree great professional sports, There-
fore, we will have a wefertaas sport for each season of the year <<
baseball in the spring and sumer, football in the fall and basketball
in the winter. In this way doubtless thousands of our young men will
be able to use their skills in providing a living and at the same time
serving as entertainers for our great throng of civilian populations

Certainly American sports both professional end amateur will be
exemplifying the English tradition of building friendships while
developing stronger bodies without the hideous practics of destryoing
their neighbors.